Scott Nixon

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I had an Accounting teacher Dr. Cynthia Bolt at The Citadel that used to say that “I’d rather have the money today because you don’t know what tomorrow is going to hold.” Laws change, inflation, cashflow, opportunity costs, etc. Her statement was mostly about investing and accounting, however I think this line of thinking is also very applicable to sales.  If you have a customer today, you want to sell to them today and get their money now, because you never know what will change.  This person might not be a customer past next week for any number of reason including: death, they fall of the wagon, they loose interest, and life changes.

Marginal Cost

In economics and finance, marginal cost is the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced changes by one unit. That is, it is the cost of producing one more unit of a good. [from wikipedia] When you sell software and ebooks that marginal is practically zero.

Give more value than you take.

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I’m trying to come up with a quick and easier reporting tool for our sales data.  So I decided to try out Google Docs Table.

First off this is a super limited tool; the primary two manipulation aspects field filters and aggregates.

I think this tool could be good for a really quick upload and very simple analysis. They also have visualization tools build-in but configuration is limited so the best I could easily create was this graph which is useless to us; we know that English speaking countries are our primary users. There is also a feature for creating data views but it only lets you remove columns and doesn’t preserve any filters or aggregates.  

Next I’m going to try FileMaker Pro as I understand it is a really great tool. We will see.

I’m surrounded by a-holes that love email. How about loving Documentation or Team Work?